Roughly 5 million people left California in the last decade. See where they went. This is fascinating on a number of levels. First, and foremost, is how many people have fled the People’s Republic, and how much income they took with them. Those of us behind enemy lines know only too well why they left….
Author: Jay Guevara
“Left-leaning?” Yeah, I’d say so
Low-Income Workers See Biggest Drop in Paychecks Despite steady gains in hiring, a falling unemployment rate and other signs of an improving economy, take-home pay for many American workers has effectively fallen since the economic recovery began in 2009, according to a new study by an advocacy group that is to be released on Thursday….
What Hath Liberalism Wrought?
Compare and contrast: An illegal immigrant couple with six children were already living in poverty. Then the quadruplets arrived. They’re still in a daze. Girl, 12, beats Einstein and Stephen Hawking to get top score in IQ test Let’s review the bidding here, shall we? Angela Magdaleno is an illegal alien, living in poverty, with…
What Could Go Wrong?
DHS grants temporary legal status to Yemeni citizens Beautiful. The Obama administration Thursday announced it will grant legal status and halt deportations for potentially thousands of citizens of Yemen, saying the security situation on the ground there is so bad that the U.S. has a moral obligation to protect people. But apparently no moral obligation…
“Take that, Bibi”
More Self-Inflicted Wounds Periodically the MSM break cover and let their true colors show. A case in point: So that brings me to the real self-inflicted wound, which was a tweet by PBS NewsHour co-anchor Gwen Ifill on Wednesday—after it became known that President Obama had secured the necessary number of Democratic backers in the…
Great Moments in Leftist History
Ever wonder where that hyphenated American rubbish started? You know, where seemingly everyone describes himself as a [fill in the ethnicity]-American? Whatever happened to the melting pot? The story is both fascinating and disturbing. It involves Bella Dodd, who was sort of a distaff version of Whitaker Chambers, a one-time functionary of the Communist Party…
Speaking of Academic Craziness …
Professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” “male,” or “female.” Source: Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’ Further proof, if any were needed that the inmates have taken over the asylum in higher education. If there were…
You’ve Got to Give the Reds Credit: They Just Don’t Give Up
Exoneration: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell Prosecutorial Deceptions, Suborned Perjuries, Anti-Semitism Apparently these people didn’t get the memo: the Rosenbergs were guilty as all hell, Morton Sobell has himself admitted he was a Soviet spy, and the judge in the Rosenbergs’ case was Jewish. As cofounders of the National Committee…
The Cat Is Out Of The Bag About Social Science
Of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, 75% of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies failed the replication test Source: Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology experiment results | Science | The Guardian Conservatives are accustomed to being pilloried in the social science literature for any number of undesirable…
Incentives Are A Sometime Thing
How to solve San Francisco’s homeless pooping problem While Mayor Ed Lee announced this week that “the homeless must leave the street” for Super Bowl 50, it’s more what they leave behind on the street that is a concern for the million or so people who have to walk a few blocks or a few…